Truckie Glen Chapman, who donated his time, said the convoy had been cheered and supported right across the country.

"People have been waving and smiling. Normally they are giving us the finger," he laughed.

Federal MP Angus Taylor said the donation was an inspiring example of "the Aussie spirit of getting in and helping your mates".

Lachlan Shire Mayor John Medcalf added the delivery was "a fantastic help in the short term" to help farmers coping with two failed harvests and virtually no rain in the past 12 months.

A mob of sheep graze on the dry and dusty fields of a failed crop near Parkes. Picture: AAP

"The lack of feed is now forcing people to sell off their stock and they are coming down to their core breeders. People are paying $1000 a day to truck in feed for their stock and some hard decisions are going to have to be made," he said.

Most eyes are on the state government and its $1 billion drought relief package, which many farmers complain is tangled in red tape and too difficult to access. So far the government has approved just 150 of 357 applications, worth $7 million, to the Drought Assistance Fund.

Deputy Premier John Barilaro told the farmers in Condobolin "if it doesn't rain there is more to come".

The hall was rolling into Condobolin yesterday. Picture: Dylan Robinson

Mr Barilaro also took a shot at the supermarkets who cut prices - selling products such as milk for just $1 a litre - leaving farmers with less money in the bank to cope when the bad times come around.

"Pay them the right price at the time when they are producing," he said.

He said yesterday: "We have been dry for 12 months. It is like someone just turned the tap off."

Spike is trying to buy feed for his sheep and has seen the price per tonne double in the last 10 days. It is also affecting his young family - wife Kate, 34, and their four children, Anna, 7, Lachlan, 5, Archie, 2, and baby Imogen, who is just seven weeks old.

Farmers are desperate for feed for their stock. Picture: AAP

"There is no down time," said Kate. "All our time is spent carting water and feed. If Spike comes in for lunch we are on Excel spreadsheets working out how to adjust the feed and ringing around trying to find where to buy it."

"Just two years ago we were marking our lambs in flooded paddocks.

"We try to keep looking on the bright side. But there is a non-pretty reality to it."

Aussies have dug deep. The Rapid Relief Team raised almost $3 million in two weeks. Commonwealth Bank customers have raised $4 million, with the bank adding almost another $2 million to a Red Cross fund that stands at $8 million.

Every cent will be needed. Normally western NSW can expect up to 600mm of rain but this year it has received as little as 50mm. The winter rainfall is down from as much as 200mm to just 30mm.

Crop and livestock farmer Wayne Dunford feeds his cattle with bales of hay transported from Victoria at Lynton Station west of Parkes. Picture: AAP

Bureau of Meteorology spokesman Mohammed Nabi said: "The next three months are forecast to be well, well below average for rainfall."

And that means next year will also be bad because there is nothing growing in the state's red parched paddocks.

The state Department of Primary Industries lists more than 99 per cent of NSW as affected by drought in some way, with 21 per cent listed as suffering "intense drought".

A scarcity of fat lambs because of the big dry has led to record lamb prices in some areas of the state.